El huayru en las áreas rurales de Sígsig: una perspectiva antropológica de sus significaciones en el siglo XXI

Abstract

The huayru is a ritual-funerary practice that reached a wide expansion in the Andes and reached the current Ecuador possibly in pre-Columbian or even pre-Inca times and still survives in the southern area. This project aims to learn about the perspectives and meanings that the huayru acquires in rural areas of Azuay (Sígsig canton) for it is necessary tools that anthropology has, such as ethnography. This allows us to approach the personal perspectives that the huayru practitioners keep. That is to say, through interviews and dialogues it is intended to access the oral memory of certain practitioners and with the information gathered it will be possible to shed light on the unknown meanings still existing in the XXI century about this practice. On the other hand, culture is not static and is always in constant change because, with the wave of new information typical of globalization, the huayru ritual is modified and requires an analysis that explains its cultural procedure in contemporaneity and preserves a record that shows the changes and its continuities